malady
IPA: mˈæɫʌdi
noun
- Any ailment or disease of the body; especially, a lingering or deep-seated disorder.
- A moral or mental defect or disorder.
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Examples of "malady" in Sentences
- I just pray her malady is painful and that she suffers excruciating pain on her way out.
- Once when they were all together, Pray, Doctor, cried he, how is it you call the malady our friend is labouring under?
- Until now, the latest information on chronic wasting disease suggested that the malady is passed only via direct contact between deer.
- And the APA – the organization responsible for medically determining matters such as this. bitblt says: except the malady is self-declared and there is no known case,
- The root of contemporary (as distinguished from "modern") malady is the implication of the masses (in a sense, all of us -- no matter how personally blameless) in the "sexual revolution".
- “Verily, this my malady is mortal and the shaft of death hath executed that which Allah Almighty decreed against me: this is the last of my days in the world here and the first of my days in the world hereafter.”
- I would have, quite literally, looked like I had just escaped from the special ed class, and the ice cream truck driver would have wondered what sort of brain malady I suffered from as I happily handed over my wadded-up dollar bills.
- And when her imagination became occasionally darkened by that gloom which she termed her malady, nothing could be more impressive than the tone of deep and touching piety which mingled with and elevated her melancholy into a cheerful solemnity of spirit, that swayed by its pensive dignity the habits and affections of her whole family.
- We keep in touch, I always inquire about him, he is a devotee of Khwajah Gharib Nawaz the Holy Saint of Ajmer ..now if you call his malady a disease than the first person to infect him with the poison was his uncle who gagged him and sodomized him when his family was away..he has not forgotten that and weeps each time he talks of this persecution ..this assault on his body and soul.
- Descriptions of the malady from the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries relate the horror of its effects: the terrible sores and swellings, often extending into the mouth and throat, and leaving the body covered with scabs that turned from red to black; severe fever; pain in the bones so intense that patients "screamed day and night without respite, envying the dead themselves"; and, often early death.
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